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    Default Facilities Management and Revit

    It is estimated that between 75% and 95% of the lifecycle cost of a building is in maintenance, not in the construction. One of the downstream benefits of BIM should be the opportunity for building owners and operators to leverage the data in the BIM model.

    Autodesk FM Desktop software has recently been discontinued. Is there a replacement product (or acquisition) on the horizon?

    A Revit plug-in for Archibus Facilities Management software has been out for almost a year: Overlay with Design Management for Revit®

    Anyone having experience with either, please comment.

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    My investigation reveals that ARCHIBUS has been around for a long time, and has integration with AutoCAD. Its integration with Revit also sounds promising.

    Highlight from the ARCHIBUS product brochure:

    Overlay with Design Management for AutoCAD® and Revit®

    With the growing importance of Building Information Modeling (BIM) as the basis for cost-effective creation and modification of buildings throughout their lifecycle, ARCHIBUS Overlay for AutoCAD and Revit ties building information models directly to enterprise databases.

    Maintain Accurate Information

    Updates to drawings in the Overlay application are instantaneous, eliminating the need to transfer AutoCAD or Revit information to your facilities and infrastructure database. A series of ARCHIBUS-specific pull-down menus, integrated directly into AutoCAD and Revit’s own menu bars, enables you to perform tasks all from within those applications. Such seamless integration enables you to both create and maintain facility-related drawings with ease.
    • Make changes in AutoCAD or Revit that will be automatically updated in the ARCHIBUS database
    • Assign intelligence to drawings by adding room numbers, departments, and more
    • Reflect changes or additions to the Revit model simultaneously within ARCHIBUS
    • Combine the results of thousands of models in one ARCHIBUS enterprise database
    • Access ARCHIBUS from Revit, query Revit data—across different buildings, sites, countries and time zones— using ARCHIBUS Web Central

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    Default Re: Facilities Management and Revit

    What is the latest on this one? Has anyone tried ARCHIBUS for Revit? Any feedback will be very much appreciated.

    Is there any other means to leaverage BIM models for facility management?

    Thanks in anticipation.

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